I'm back in EVE again and I was curious how the roleplay community was doing. I've been wanting to get back into it but it feels like things have slowed down a lot compared to the old days of roleplay-corp warfare. I'm worried I might have to bite the bullet and join a normie corporation out in 0.0 if RP is dead.

Do any of the big names still play?

Further, for those of you who were Khanid loyalists, any of you great people still around?

Depends on how long you've been gone and who the 'big names' for you were. There is certainly considerably less pure-roleplay warfare; the reasoning for this is deeply varied but can (in my opinion) mostly be traced back to FW absorbing the major RP conflicts into a game mechanic subsequently followed by a huge drought in lore and world news.

Khanid loyalists... I can think of two active at the moment (Morwen Lagann and Indira Harashani); the others have turned straight-up pirate or quit. There are no Khanid corps at the moment, unfortunately.

Morwen's Law:1) The number of capsuleer women who are bisexual is greater than the number who are lesbian.2) Most of the former group appear lesbian due to a lack of suitable male partners to go around.3) The lack of suitable male partners can be summed up in most cases thusly: interested, worth the air they breathe, available; pick two.

Lyn Farel

Are you asking for Khanid loyalists as in "Khanid Kingdom loyalists", or for true Khanids (the bloodline) ? Because depending on the answers that's totally different.

Since Silas turned blooder and KPV collapsed, I haven't seen many Khanid Kingdom loyalist corps or alliances yes. I don't know either a lot of Khanid Kingdom supporters, be them Khanid by blood, or not (True Amarr, Ni-Kunni, etc).

However, there are many Khanid loyalists, as in loyalists of the bloodline. Most are Amarrians though, not Kingdom loyalists.

Lyn Farel

The main issue for some of us is that there is a huge confusion for most players between the Khanid Kingdom (ruled by an amarrian guy, at the head of an amarrian House that just happened to fall in love with their little khanids when they reclaimed Athra), which is probably populated mostly by Amarrians and Khanids, and the actual Khanid bloodline, which can be found in the Kingdom as well as in the Empire, and can in both case share very different loyalties or beliefs.